I Spit on Your Grave

Name: I Spit on Your Grave
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: November 22, 1978
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 19
Cast: Alexis Magnotti, Anthony Nichols, Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Gunter Kleemann

1978

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Overwhelming dislike based on 6 Critics

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I Spit On Your Grave

Movie Details & Credits

Cinemagic | Release Date: November 22, 1978

Starring: Alexis Magnotti, Anthony Nichols, Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Gunter Kleemann, Richard Pace, Tammy Zarchi, Terry Zarchi, Traci Ferrante, William Tasgal

Summary: An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.

Director: Meir Zarchi

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Slant Magazine - Glenn Heath Jr.

One can’t mistake I Spit in Your Grave for anything other than a raging political text, a rigorous reminder to the power of a disturbed imagination, be it victimizer or victim. Read full review

IGN - R.L. Shaffer

Admittedly, I Spit on Your Grave is a gruesome, deplorable little exploitation picture that, on the surface, seems to enjoy it's rape sequences just as much, if not more, than the vengeance-filled finale. But on a more subtle level, the film is a surprisingly well-executed revenge story that plays like a brutally raw nerve – a terrifyingly stark view of the real horror of rape, painted by bizarre, skewed cinematography, gory violence, and a keen sense of creeping atmosphere and dread. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Staff (Not Credited)

Director Meir Zarchi may have been trying to make a point about the horrors of rape, brutality, revenge, and reprisal, but he simply isn't a good enough director to extract any relevance or nuance from his exploitative material. Watch Wes Craven's Last House On The Left instead. Read full review

Empire - Mark Dinning

Really, really bad. It's not good on any level. Not a good horror, not a good revenge flick, it's poorly constructed and has absolutely nothing to say or offer. Utter shit. Read full review

Chicago Tribune - Gene Siskel

A hideously violent shocker about a woman who is repeatedly raped and castrates her victims. [18 July 1980, p.8]

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

It is a movie so sick, reprehensible and contemptible that I can hardly believe it's playing in respectable theaters. But it is. Attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of, my life. Read full review

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robertoiglesias

Sep 29, 2017

What a big wreck! This is the worst and stupidest movie of the 70's and every part of it SUCKS! Getting revenge on a gang of idiots by killing them is just plain bad.

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